Eli Tucker-Raymond
BU Wheelock Scholarly Accomplishments March 2025
BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and awards for March 2025. Books and Book Chapters Anna Lim Lim, A. (2024). Immigrant deaf students of color: On the axes of accommodation, acculturation, and racialization. In C. M. Leider, C. L. Dobbs, & E. Nerlino (Eds.), Preparing antiracist teachers: Fostering antiracism and equity in teacher […]
Building Teacher Capacity in Computer Science Education
Doctoral student Cliff Freeman, who is also the director of STEM Programs at the Young People’s Project (YPP), and Eli Tucker-Raymond, a research associate professor at BU Wheelock, are working to build math teachers’ capacity for teaching computer science. In collaboration with Freeman’s colleagues at YPP, they developed a three-year initiative to integrate computer science […]
Guiding Youth to Create Change through STEM
Developing young people’s sense of agency as STEM learners, community members, and creative thinkers is the driving force behind two projects led by BU Wheelock’s Earl Center for Learning & Innovation. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Nurturant STEM Learning and STEM Cascades focus on encouraging young people’s creative development, critical insight, and social thriving. […]
NSF Funds Grant Workshop Focused on Racial Equity
For BU Wheelock’s Eli Tucker-Raymond and his colleagues Christopher Wright (Drexel University) and Carrie Tzou (University of Washington Bothell), the experience of sitting on grant review panels opened their eyes to the need for a change in how equity and broadening participation in STEM were being framed in proposals. “Many applicants think that if they […]
New Grant Supports STEM Equity Research Network
BU Wheelock’s Maria C. Olivares, research assistant professor in language & literacy and Eli Tucker-Raymond, research associate professor, have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to assist in the development of a network to coordinate research on equity practices and cultures in STEM-maker education. The project, “Coordinating Research for Critical Making Cultures and […]
Eli Tucker-Raymond Receives Award for STEM Literacies Book
Eli Tucker-Raymond, BU Wheelock research associate professor of language & literacy, has been awarded a 2020 Outstanding Book Award by the Society of Professors of Education (SPE) for STEM Literacies in Makerspaces: Implications for Learning, Teaching, and Research. The book is one of 14 texts highlighted as outstanding by SPE. Published by Routledge, the book […]
Study Explores How Youth Mentors Facilitate STEM Learning, Teaching, and Doing
BU Wheelock faculty members Eli Tucker-Raymond, Maria Olivares, and Kate Frankel have been awarded a three-year grant through the National Science Foundation’s Education and Human Resources Core Research Program (ECR) to study how acting as peer mentors helps youth develop relational and personally meaningful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) identities. The project will run […]
BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty Members
BU Wheelock was joined this fall by several new faculty members. Davena Jackson Clinical Assistant Professor, English Education Davena Jackson joins BU Wheelock from Michigan State University, where she completed her PhD in Curriculum, Instruction & Teacher Education. Her dissertation is titled “Black Symmetry: Carving Out a Black Space in an Eleventh-Grade English Class.” Jackson’s […]